[183] W. Sharp, Life of Severn, 1892, pp. 86–87, 90, 117–18. [↑]
[184] On reading Lamb’s severe rejoinder, Southey, in distress, apologized, and Lamb at once relented (Life and Letters of John Rickman, by Orlo Williams, 1912, p. 225). Hence the curtailment of Lamb’s letter in the ordinary editions of his works. [↑]
[185] William Allingham: A Diary, 1907, p. 253. Cp. p. 268. [↑]
[187] Allingham, as cited, p. 254. [↑]
[188] Id. p. 211. Carlyle said the same thing to Moncure Conway. [↑]
[189] Cp. Prof. Bain’s J. S. Mill, pp. 157, 191; Froude’s London Life of Carlyle, i, 458. [↑]
[191] See Brougham’s letters in the Correspondence of Macvey Napier, 1879, pp. 333–37. Brougham is deeply indignant, not at the fact, but at the indiscreet revelation of it—as also at the similar revelation concerning Pitt (p. 334). [↑]